Mikhail Kalashnikov Quotes

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.

As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Whether or not science can be applied to that mental construct [i.e. the designed entity] is a matter of availability. If there is body of scientific knowledge that can be applied, then it would be foolish not to exploit it. However, if there is none, it does not mean that the thing cannot be designed, made, and used safely.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

Invention is the mother of necessities.